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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 8
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Calamities shall befall the inhabitants of Jerusalem—For them the harvest is past, the summer is ended, and they are not saved.
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At</span> that time, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
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And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/8/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Idolatry.">worshipped</a>: they shall not be gathered, nor be <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/8/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 25: 33.">buried</a>; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/8/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rev. 9: 6.">death</a> shall be <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/8/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Agency.">chosen</a> rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts.
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&#182; Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; Shall they fall, and not arise?  shall he turn away, and not return?
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Why <i>then</i> is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/8/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">backsliding</a>?  they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
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I hearkened and heard, <i>but</i> they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done?  every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
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Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/8/7a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB turtle-dove; Song. 2: 12 (10-12).">turtle</a> and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/8/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hel. 12: 6 (6-22).">know</a> not the judgment of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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How do ye say, We <i>are</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/8/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 1: 20 (19-20); 2 Ne. 9: 28.">wise</a>, and the law of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> with us?  Lo, certainly in vain made he <i>it;</i> the pen of the scribes <i>is</i> in vain.
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The wise <i>men</i> are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/8/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel; TG Disobedience.">rejected</a> the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; and what wisdom <i>is</i> in them?
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Therefore will I give their wives unto others, <i>and</i> their fields to them that shall inherit <i>them:</i> for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
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For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when <i>there is</i> no peace.
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Were they <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/8/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 47: 36.">ashamed</a> when they had committed abomination?  nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/8/12b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Punishment.">cast</a> down, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; I will surely <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/8/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 26: 6; D&C 63: 34.">consume</a> them, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: <i>there shall be</i> no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and <i>the things that</i> I have given them shall pass away from them.
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Why do we sit still?  assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/8/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR fortified.">defenced</a> cities, and let us be silent there: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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We looked for <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/8/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 30: 26; Isa. 59: 9; Jer. 14: 19.">peace</a>, but no good <i>came; and </i>for a time of health, and behold trouble!
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The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/8/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 1: 15.">strong</a> ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
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For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which <i>will</i> not <i>be</i> charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; <i>When</i> I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart <i>is</i> faint in me.
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Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: <i>Is</i> not the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> in Zion?  <i>is</i> not her king in her?  Why have they provoked me to <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/8/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Anger.">anger</a> with their graven images, <i>and</i> with <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/8/19b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR foreign idols.">strange</a> vanities?
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/8/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 45: 2; D&C 56: 16; D&C 76: 79 (71-79).">harvest</a> is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
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For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/8/21a" mark="a" type="E" title="Heb. idiom meaning ‘gloomy.’; Joel 2: 6; Nahum 2: 10.">black</a>; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
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<i>Is there</i> no <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/8/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 46: 11.">balm</a> in Gilead; <i>is there</i> no physician there?  why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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